New Yorkers may soon have to find new ways to capture stray pizza rats. State lawmakers there are considering a ban on the sale and use of glue boards. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: You know those sticky ...

Snapping a rat’s neck with a spring-loaded trap … fine. Electrocuting a rodent with a zap-trap … OK. But for a pair of progressive New York City elected officials, those stuck-till-you-starve glue ...

New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.

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